Edith Hamilton, AGAMEMNON (From a footnote) — 1939 W.W. Norton; 1965 Doris Fielding Reid, pg. 192
April 28th, 2012 Tags: Edith Hamilton quote Hell classics win footnotes gidgetwidget
#CATS ARE STILL READING AESCHYLUS…. currently debating the Dover Publications translation which is actually Mead 1909 or something…
April 28th, 2012 Tags: gidgetwidget cats cute classics aeschylus ancient greece
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IGGYBOOS: Last time you saw TWO orange tabby cats surrounded by NINE translations of Aeschylus?
That’s right. Get yo’ so random, you popopoipoipop
April 28th, 2012 Tags: classics aeschylus cats cute ancient drama theatre EPIC WIN GEEK LOVE gidgetwidget GidgetWidget™ ©KHC2012
G O T T H U C Y D I D E S ?
Have you read your Plato (Socrates) since 2011?
April 02nd, 2012 Tags: philosophy question education classics photography Gidgetwidget
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”
-All’s Well That Ends Well, 4.3
QUOTE SUBMITTED BY … Emily Karol
SKETCHY THOUGHTS: Nothing cuter than a momma Virtue and her little baby Crime.
January 20th, 2012 Tags: shakespeare gidgetwidget shakesketch illustration comics classics
Give me the inspiration to illustrate my favorite lines from Shakespeare? Or to re-read Herodotus? Or to research old book illustrations? To listen to music, write poetry, review medieval texts…all these fill my soul with light and hope and love.
And all because of this little invention called the world wide web. Thank you, Twitter and Tumblr; Perseus and Gutenberg; and all who are filling the digital landscape with such things as great and wonderful as you do.
—ME AND MY BRAIN AND MY HEART
January 15th, 2012 Tags: Shakespeare Classics Education Digital Media Culture Thank You
EXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR
It really is the only stage direction in Shakespeare’s Canon that is specific. WINTER’S TALE did not exist in the Quartos but was part of the First Folio Publication from which this image was taken. For the link, please send me message and I will send a boobie pic.
November 28th, 2011 Tags: Shakespeare Classics Image Theatre Literature Fact Geek Love
Homer’s Epic Tale of the Trojan War — A lesson forced on school children for a reason, never to forget….
~~~ Too lazy? Why bother with it? ~~~
“Train? IDK :/
SMH no “TROY” movie w BradPitt. wtf u on?
OMFG n Orlando Blm, 2! STFU cuz watchd it 4 eng304
why read somethin by homer simpson?
cuz school is retarded, like epic dull n wtf am i learnin?
i know!!!!!
Forgotten. Our history. Our education. Learning.
And this, will be the end of us, just as it is, every time. Our Trojan Horse has come and we celebrate its arrival.
Cassandra knew, just as today, some know and will fight back:
INTERNET OF TECHNOTROY — The Media that launched the Millennium Twits. Unleashing the Furies, the Eumenides, Ἐρινύς
As Prometheus warned, The Oracle from Delphi to Athens before Salamis warned, Socrates cautioned and I, myself, foretold at the end of the ORESTEIA….
— AESCHYLUS, “Tortoise Shells, Gulls Over Head”
Fought well at the Battle Of Marathon
July 27th, 2011 Tags: Geek Girls Classics SDCC ILIAD Education History Homer Literature Poetry Myth Legend MMXI Millennial Generation Never Forget Troy Fantasy Reality Sparta Aeschylus Satire Technology The Furies Eumenides Oresteia Cassandra Culture Social Satire Trojan Horse War We're Hectored
The formulated equation by which a Michael Bay film is told, a kind of Subclassical spin off Aristotle’s POETICS and the Neoclassical Ideals of the Renaissance.
Seriously, it may very well apply. Judge for yourself…. ?
July 03rd, 2011 Tags: Michael Bay Transformers Michael Bay Algorithm Pop Culture Math Classics Screenwriting Equations Neoclassical Ideals Aristotle Hollywood Special Effects Digital Transformers 3 Humor Social Satire humor
SATURDAY • January 22, 2011
There’s gotta be some inquiring minds out there who want to tweak my brain. C’mon, ask me something, and I promise to zing back an answer.
January 22nd, 2011 Tags: gidgetwidget question ask MMXI pop culture history classics theatre culture propaganda new media
Musings at the Cooper Hewitt, 24-February 2004
Enjoyed an exhibit focusing on the debate over the relationship between Art and Design which is finally coming to fruition today. Thought I would share some juicy tidbits to tweak your brain. All but Wilde are contemporary designers:
OSCAR WILDE: I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautfiful and that beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
JOHN CHAMBERLAIN: Everything is functional or why make it? And if you don’t believe in arts function, why do you think so many people for centuries came to believe God was an old man with long flowing hair except for having seen Michelangelo’s artwork?
RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER: Art is useless; furniture is useful. This statement is a large enough ‘basket’ to contain the issue. Uselessness says it all. Art is not an idea; it is a thing. If it dropped on your foot, it would hurt. If you sit on it, its a chair. If you walk around and look at it, its a sculpture.
RICHARD TUTTLE: Sculpture and furniture are different intentions but one piece can satisfy each.
DONALD JUDD: The art of the chair is not its resemblance to art, but is partly its resonableness, usefulness and scale as a chair. The configuration and scale of art cannot be transposed into furniture and architecture. The intent of art is different from that of the latter, which must be functional. A work of art exists as itself; a chair exists as a chair itself.
SCOTT BURTON: [Contemporary Art] should take an increasingly relevant position. It will place itself not in front of, but around, behind, underneath (literally) the audience in an operational capacity.
September 26, 2010
Regardless of definition, our experience of life, both collectively and individually, remains subjective. Thus, we will debate such things that allow this room as a result of diversity in human experience; such as art, love, poetry, music, comic books, architecture, history, literature, religion or design. The list goes on.
The notion of what is “creative,” and why or how, strikes at us still with broad strokes and opposing positions. For those who wish to assume conclusions underestimate how limiting a definition can be upon these things we humans create. The application of design, how it functions and what determines its degree of success, informs the application of art; just as vice versa, the artistic mediums inform design.
We cannot have innovation without respecting a necessary symbiosis with tradition. Ultimately, it does not matter whether art is equal to design or whether design is equal to art or blah, blah blah…. All that matters is that we keep exploring and learning all we can. As our human experience is changing, so are our means of expression and reaction. Innovation will always be met with fear and failure; tradition will always be a way of limiting or informing how we adapt. From Aristotle and Zeami, to Neoclassicism and Surrealism, our history is rich with clues to guide us further in our understanding, if a person chooses to look closely and not be afraid of whatever it is you see.
Life is subjective for the individual and therefore, no single person may determine what means what, but you. Just don’t forget to experience all you can while you are here. “It’s all just a little bit of history repeating…” and yes, “these times, they are a-changin’.”
Copyright 2010, KHC
September 26th, 2010 Tags: art design theatre gidgetwidget cooperhewitt functional design technical design Culture Engineering Architecture Comic Books Jack Kirby Shakespeare image classics 21st Century trend
